Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

I miss AmiPro

I was kicking around some old software and came across my old copy of AmiPro 3.1. It loaded off of five floppies. Imagine that. Performed all my essential page layout functions on a 386 machine with 2MB of RAM. Was simple, yet powerful. I could actually use the macro function too.

Six years later and I still yearn for the simplicity (and a lesson on how to use the f-ing macro functions in Word). Lotus really blew it when the moved squarely into the bloatware camp with Microsoft and WordPerfect.

I weep for AmiPro. : (

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

Ah yes, Ami Pro. That was my word processor of choice for the longest time. It was the only one at the time that I could get mail merge working on.

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James Hromadka
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Registered: May 2000
Location: Cleveland, Ohio 44067
Posts: 242

I was never an Ami Pro user, by the time I moved to Lotus it was WordPro. I like Word Pro a lot, much more than Word or Word Perfect.

What I realy miss is Lotus Improv! The most dynamic and useful spreadsheet I ever used. It is amazing that it was discontinued some five years ago and it is still far more advanced than Excel and 1-2-3 are today.

What killed it was that people never understood the strength and capabilities of it. So they stuck to their wimpy basic spreadsheet programs and that is all we have today.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

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Originally posted by maddog
I was never an Ami Pro user, by the time I moved to Lotus it was WordPro. I like Word Pro a lot, much more than Word or Word Perfect.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Coppell, Texas
Posts: 64

I have to agree. AMI PRO was great simple yet functional, and Improv was super. Switching to different views of the data could really make a difference in a presation and it was sooo simple! How we pine for the good old days.


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